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MARVELS OF THE LONDON DOCKS.

GREATIST BUSINESS IN THE WORLD, Few people have any clear idea either of dos extent or the romantic interest of the London Docks, which under the Bill just introduced in the Heute of Commons, are to be henceforth managed by a public authority. It was Mr. John Burns who suggested the municipalisation of the London docks after the great strike of 1889. The new management under Mr. Lloyd. George's

Bill will not be exactly municipal. A large proportion of the twenty-five members of the Dock Board, for instance, will be elsoted by these whete basiness interests come, unor The Beard's control. But the docks is be managed by a public body, and they will be by far the biggest business in the world worked in

this way.

Not only will the Port Authority have charge of the actual docks and quays, but also an even greater responsibility of the sermons warehouses in which gecds arriving by are stored and exhibited. In these warehouses there are always millions of pounds' worth of Unpacking them, checking them, setting them out for show so that wholesalo buyers CAE inspect them,packing them up again and sending them to the eventual destinations-all this is huge business of itself.

waras,

The wages bill of the London and Indis Dock Company runs in to many hundreds of thousands of pounds. All their thousands of workers will hanceforward be the servants of the Port Trust Let as go on considering what the nature of their daily duties in.

| A NEW TREATMENT FOR LEPROSY. From time immemorial the march for s remedy for laprosy has been carried on. When we consider the hideonanem, the chronicity and the practically bopeless nature of the disease, this in not to be wondered at. Although almost every your brings forth a new our, and although in the aggregate emot cares amount to legion, To have to confess that bitherto the quest has been in vain. It is true that certain drugs do appear to have some influence on the progress of the dicense, and it is equally sure that a small proportion of lepers recover, yet it can hardly bo offirmed that we can curs leprosy even in a limited sense, or any more than it can be

When Hansen that we can cure, sandar, discovered the germ cause of the disease, and more particularly when it was found that tuberculin produced in certain cases of leprosy a definite reaction, it was thought by many that in that subitanos we might "find the long sought-for-remedy, or, at all events, an indication of the direction in which search should be made. Unfortunately, the attempts made to fad the remedy were baffled from the ontact, for it has been found impossible to cul tivate the germ from which such a remedy might be manufactured. Professor Deyoke, a recent lecture, states that he has cultivated if not the lepre bacillus itself, at all events an organism closely related to it, from this organism he has extracted a fatiy principle naetin, which on being injected into lepere, gives rise to a reaction staplar to that pro- duced with bernay! oblaride and administered in appropriate dose brings about, if not in every esse complete ours, at least the arrest of the disssss in all but the most hopeless. According to Professor Dayake, the com- bination of bastio and benzoyl chloride acts directly on the lapra bacilius by depriving it of its fatly element, thereby killing it and leaving it an easy prey to the protective influences of the tissues. The microscopic specimens and lantern slides which he showed of bis lestare seemed to support his statements. We sincerely hope that further experience of naslin therapy will be found fully or even partially to bear out what Professor Deyoke claims for it. The to obtain object of his visit to this country was permission to try his nastin treatment on a large scale in some of the numerous loper asylume in British Colonies. As the treatment involves no risk or pain to the patient, we have no doubt that the Colonial Office, which of recent years has shown itself so keen to assist medical research, will afford bim every facility, and, aleo, on bakalf of the innumerable spet subjects of King Edward, will carefully watch the effects of be treatment. This is the least the Colonial Office- can do. Any one who reads Professor Deyoke's paper can see that it is based on careful work, carried through with ability and in a truly soientiBo spirit, and all will agree that he has earned the opportunity he asks for. It is not the lepar only who has a direct interest in the result, but there appears to be a side issue in the direction

Very large stores of indigo are to be seen at the London and India Dock der dt, Cratohed Friar, arately old building with interesting detail, such as fine vaalled roofs to arches and harmonious proportion generally, although it is only a warokener. This belonged to John Company it is interesting, too by reason of its standing on the site of the house of Semuel the London School of Tropical Medicines Papy, where the famous Diary was written The most remarkable feature of the Indigo Department is its abundance of washing basins, and even baths, The lagers, who spend many hours here testing the Terions samples of dye, suffer literally from "the blues. At the end of the day they are subdued to what they have worked in. Therefore tho Dook Company provides them with cupboards, where that Peep cld suits, and gives them the opportunity of taking a bath as well.

Close by are rooms filled with all sorts of chemists' shop artioles in the raw, Did you know Ipecacusaha was brewed from the bark of tree? Here are big baskets of twigs and tendrils just arrived from Brazil. Do not confus it, though, with the endless bundles of Bates. parilla which are lying about ready to be used as the basis of many highly recommended "tonicu" and blood mixtures That stuff like hard, black toffee is Alosa, also very largely nand in preparing popular medicines. It is kind of gum exaded by the plant. African negroes who collected, it had no proper receptacles for it, so they sent it in anything they could find-gourds, old sardine tins, or svan in the skins of monkeys! Those are monkey skine in a big heap over there.

The West

of taberculosis. The latter may prove of importance, but even failing that, if nestin therapy its found to care or even to mitigate the misery of the hundreds of thousands of lepers who at the present moment are slowly rotting to death, Professor Dyeke will have earned a place among the great benefactors of our rave.

The British Medical Jourosi."

CHEAP COTTON

At the London Brooks are abeds filled with sacks of cascara sagrada, which is also the bark of a tree. It is strange to see auch huge masses of a drug which is taken in such ting doses Another room at Drotahed Friars in giten up to samples of medicinal rhubarb-from

VOTURËS DROP BELOW NINE CENTS. Central Asia. A faint astringent smell re

A newspaper cutting from New York says:-- minds one of the natissons doses of schoolby Mr. Livermore, a large local obtaids operator, daye. Now, there are other strengs durs who often made successful large turns in cotton hanging in the air; these come from the per during the past season by swinging big lines, fame store, where are kept the actaf musk after having kept out of the market returned bage of the musk.ox, the civet which is taken here in the middle of last week He was from the ofret ont, and the ambergris from credited then with accumulating 50,000 bales, particular species of whale. It is astonishing how unplemnt the raw materials of sweet scents can be. It is a blessed relief to turn to a vegetable perfume and to suit at a bottle of concentrated Ylang-Ylang, distilled from orangeflowers.

through Hutton, obichy of July and October The trade believes this operators, whose buying was responsible for wood rally toward the class of last week, tried to unload on your mar ket early this morning, but found the conditions too narrow there. This solling became a feature here, lasting throughout the forenoon. Prices started 10 points below Saturday's flusls, then sagged 10 points more, making a third break of 10 to 15 pointa after one o'clock, when one broker sold 25,000 bales of October at 9 cents, the bot

At the St. Katharine Dook there is a reg -lar scent factory, where the delicious perfuases from Grases and elsewhere are separated from the fat in which they travel and worked up into saleside form. Then off they go to all countries in the world. The convenienos tom price, with Schill, the most prominent to the scent. firms of having a factory local boar, taking 15,000 haloe of it. Thr

in the dooks is that they do not pay duty seemed to finish the liquida ion referred to.

the alcohol used

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making the May sold at $96, July at 0.02, August at 8.99, perfumes which are not going to stay in this and October at 8. Prices then rallied 6 to 8 country. After Iodine and Asafoetida nad points, the market closing steady, with a abeese in balk, it is like, an air from heaven.

somewhat better feeling at 3 to 6 points from the lowest, and 23 to 35 points below daturday's

Now for the cigars," says the kind guide. At Crutched-Friare we go up in the lift and then through room after room filled with the familier boxer, mostly from Havans, though Indis, Burms, Borneo, Mexico, a Brazil all the contributo too,

The only financial trouble is with one small firm, the only members of the New York Cotton. Exchange who bave Been balling the market

newer, and who are suffering.

loss of Southern business through the Anti-Option Laws. I understand, however, that all their

no public tracts have been liquidated, so announcement of their embarrassment may be necessary.

Several hundred thousand dry rol from the "Weeds," pitogether there are, and about thirty million cigarettes. The pipe tobacco is kept at the Victoria Docks, the usual stock amounting to some tine million pounds worth (2000 tons), Down there the floor space. measure! three miles and the frontage three-quarters of a mile.

But even more interesting than the cigers or the drugs in hulk ie the astonishing show of fars Here are skins from ovory climate and corner tigers from Bengal, weasels from China, foxen and martens from Japan;

"Bitches

and nutrias" from Siberis, opossume and musquash from Amarios, sheep and goats from Tibet. All down a buge room are long tables, and every table is heaped high with skins-a million pounds worth at least! A woman could learn more about the secrets of the far trade here in twenty minutes than she could find out in a lifetime of ordinary shopping,

She could see with her own eyes bow.skius which look like one piece are made up of n endless number of small pieces sown skilfully together by Ah Sin, She would sea what on be done, by dyeing, with rabbit and pussy-pat,

ermine" would be clear when she saw piles of. She would imitation tails ready to be sewn on, learn to distinguish between real and faired astrakhan.

CON-

Beyond these speculative conditions, nothing of any great importance has developed in the general situation. Extreme pessimism, unduly exaggerating the conditions, is responsible for the timidity of buyers of spot ootton, and osus. ing the present liquidatico and general short selling. Spots are off only about de. Liverpool should come 4 points lowar to-morrow. Cloning prices; April, 8.89-8.90 May, 8.98-8.99 July, 9.07-998; August, 8.90-9.01; Septem ber, 8.97-9.0; October, 3.3-9.04: December, 9.08-9.04; Jaanary, 9.04-9.05. Day's sales, 350,000 bales.

CHANGEFUL LONDON.

Anybody an feel like, a millionaire for eight penne a mile now, Three luxuriously futed taxicabs are gliding about, the streets of London, They are the first cabs of the F.I.

with goat and kid. The process of making A.T. Company beautiful shiny. yellow, and.)

That was one reflection which forced itself in the far department. Another seat imagination wandering among the numberless people in far-off lands who had hunted the animals whase hides were now arrived here. What a kogo trade the kiling trade is.

Their

their brass-work is as glittering as that on the most expensive gar. Their chauffeurs, dressed in grey with blog collar and facings look as any millionaire's chauffeur.

...

And the taxicabs themselves are miracles of comfort. Au Express" representative hailed ona by chance, and when he settled down in the soft grey cushions, he thought there had been a mistake somewhere. For overbend a litle electric lamplitup the sab, and there were trays for ashes and matches,

But the greatest surprise of all lay in a brass dil opposite, on which were engraved the words: Faster" Blower Turn right," ed Tara left," Stop right," Stop left, and.

Home,"

Then step over to the London Docks, which join the St. Katharine-both are close to the cors covered with Lower and see the vast elephants' tasks, rhinoceros horns, and other ivory. The biggest tusk lere freighs 168 the smallest, belonged to a baby elephant, and torns the scale at nine ouners. On-these floors there is £200,000 worth of ivory, ranging in valas from the finest quality, of which billiard balls are made, hud which fotehes £309 a ton, down to mere chips, which are made up into cheap ornaments and toys Let your imsgma- sion people the East End for a moment with the former owners of these thousands of tasks, stopping the mechanism without altering the and of the hundreds of thousands of far skinergistered fare, so that there is no chance of 2d.

which this dock company has in keeping. Those

of us who were not eaten at onos would enjoy fora little while the finest menagerie show in the world:

No need to shont instigations at the chanf fear the fare turns the handle to" Home and it le marked simultaneously on a dial in front of the driver.

taximeter Another useful innovation is which has a "payment" position of the flag.

jumping up while the money is being handed over, or of deputes after the flag has been put up.

The cabs are 8h.p. to 16-h.p. and they take Inggags on the step.

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